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Unread 04-12-2007, 22:48
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Help with Funding

Like many other teams, ours has been working hard to raise funds for both the $6,000 FIRST Registration fee and for the build season. As we are nearing the end of the year, many organizations are out of funds and are unable to help our team.

I am the Lead Mentor at an urban school in Washington, DC, composed solely of minority students. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions from other teams of companies or groups that would be receptive to funding.

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Unread 04-12-2007, 23:12
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Re: Help with Funding

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/fo...aysprune=&f=63

A few of those might help with some ideas. It is a bit late for grants but fund raising and determination can pull through.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=59475

This thread is for rookie resources but is also helpful to all other teams as well.

I'll be sure to look out for more, and feel free to search the white papers for any info. =)
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Re: Help with Funding

NEMO has lots of information available.
http://www.firstnemo.org/

Nemo is the Non-Engineering Mentor Organization. This is a great group that is for the support of the business side of the team.
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Re: Help with Funding

With the Christmas season coming up there are tons of things you can do!

Gift wrapping at a store or even at your school, spread the word(works best at store) I was fundraising for People to People student Ambassadors, and on Christmas eve alone my mom and I worked, and raise over $1,000 in 10 hours. Not including the money from the day before, or the other 2 weekends...great fundraiser!!!

Candy sales if you can get it approved by the school is good, go to Sam’s club (best of the three) and buy boxes of candy, or go to CVS, Rite AID, and buy candy on sale and sell for $1

I also did letters from Santa, we sent out fliers to people through email saying we would write their child a letter from Santa (send me a PM if your interested i have the flier we scanned and sent)

Also talk to stores and restaurants about giving you a night where you get a percentage of what people buy (most use only the fliers you hand out)

These are the main fundraisers i did for my people to people trip of $5,800 I was able to fundraise it all+ spending.

my team did car washes, gift wrapping, we were going to do a adult spelling bee, and an auction, a family fun night...and more
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Re: Help with Funding

The Hexbugs from IFI are selling themselves.....really ....we cant hold on to them. You make 5 bucks a bug. We have only had them a week and have sold almost 10 cases.
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The Hexbugs from IFI are selling themselves.....really ....we cant hold on to them. You make 5 bucks a bug. We have only had them a week and have sold almost 10 cases.
Just curious as to where you have been selling them.
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Just curious as to where you have been selling them.
Team 1511 is selling Hex Bugs too, with the same flying off of the shelf scenario. The mentors and parents are selling them in their workplaces and team members are selling them at school and in their neighborhoods. They make excellent Christmas stocking stuffers or Chanukah gifts, or just for fun!
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Same thing as Cynette. Parents and mentors are taking them to work. Kids are selling them in school (not officially, just out of their backpacks) and to neighbors. We did have a booth at a middle school winter carnival last weekend as well. I think we sold about 40 of them there. My husband took them into work and his company bought 50 of them for the company store.

You can purchase the bugs from IFI...there is a thread on Chiefdelphi about them.

I've heard rumors that SPAM has sold over 26 cases. I highly recommend this fundraiser.
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Awesome! I hope that our team ends up doing this fundraiser.

(26*165=$4290 which is not too bad )

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